By Jean Pierre Correa, Journalist
Gambiaj.com – (DAKAR, Senegal) – The Project has apparently not been the subject of serious work. As in horse riding, the Prime Minister avoids an obstacle, disguising it behind regulatory artifices. The President of the Republic, His Excellency Bassirou Diomaye Diakhar Faye, finds himself in the singular position of a… dolphin.
However, the Senegalese writer Amadou Lamine Sall reminds him in a poignant contribution that: “your people are touched by what you embody: humility, politeness, listening, respect served to all, faith. Add firmness and authority. The quest for power, you have already learned after 90 days, is not the management of power. But you are a president who reassures and no one knows why this feeling is so strong in us, despite the doubt of some and the support of the majority… You have conquered all the hearts of the Senegalese with faith and moderation. You showed the way. But be yourself!”
It is up to the Head of State to whistle the end of this recreation and these rhetorical jousts that the Senegalese people love in their immoderate taste for the gaudriole of “Grand’Place”, and to put his troops in working order and no longer in battle order.
It is no longer the time to justify the unjustifiable or rather to take the Senegalese for partridges or wild ducks, who understand nothing about anything.
Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko, who had sworn to the citizens of our country that Pastef had, thanks to 40,000 Senegalese throughout the world, written the PROJECT, which I took care to write in capital letters as it seemed impressive to me, has not even apparently undertaken the serious work that should have been the beating heart of its General Policy Declaration.
As in horse riding, Mr. Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko avoids an obstacle, disguising it behind regulatory artifices that others in his place had been able to circumvent quietly and with dignity.
We understand that the crowds, intoxicated by his vindictive remarks of yesteryear, miss his ego and his turbulent hubris as a tribune. The problem is that he is no longer in the opposition; he is Prime Minister of a government with historic responsibilities, the most important of which is to find solutions to the thorny problems faced by 17 million Senegalese and not only his two million voters who democratically chose his PROJECT AND ITS SOLUTIONS.
Solutions or diversions?
As in the Bone of Mor Lam, their project is not yet ready to be enjoyed by the Senegalese whom they have seduced with pious wishes and out-of-touch and populist remarks, a thousand miles from the realities of governance and republican culture. The men who govern us do not know how to explain their decisions reserved for the Senegalese people, which affect the future of so many generations. So, as usual, it is once again the fault of others, of the system, forgetting that now, they left the comfort of the opposition on March 24, 2024, and that the Senegalese, having believed them, entrusted them with the reins of power. Did they say they could?
Well gentlemen: “DO!!!” The word “POWER” is clear… It allows you to… POWER.
And as the Constitution requires you to do, it is time to come before the national representation and tell the Senegalese how you are going to do it…
The Senegalese are calling on the government to focus on the country’s fundamental challenges: youth employment, training, and economic recovery. These are the social and economic issues that must be addressed and resolved to put this country back on its feet.
We are neither the press that you threaten, nor the magistrates that you threaten with your brooms. We are citizens who wait with serenity and with responsibility for you to declare your political PROJECT, which the respect they have for your function authorizes this time to use capital letters.
The internal regulations which serve as the little finger behind which the Prime Minister hides to escape his constitutional obligations, others were confronted with and did not refuse the exercise. To put him at ease, it will be easy, in a responsible and republican consensus, to amend it and make it conform to his capricious demands. It will be enough to decide it all together, to repeal this law of 2021 which Mr. Sonko is using as a screen to hide the unpreparedness of his capital PROJECT for the Senegalese, which he put them in lower case, to allow such a fair scenario justified by fear of censorship.
Mr. Ousmane Sonko is sheltering behind a law, certainly imperfect, so as not to engage his responsibility before the people who chose their project by electing President Bassirou Diomaye Diakhar Faye. In this circumstance, it is a question of ethics and morals, but above all of the republican liturgy which seems to be lacking.
The Prime Minister at the time, Mr. Amadou Ba, did not take refuge behind artifices to avoid parliamentary judgment of his political decisions. He was not unaware of the imperfection of this 2021 law. He preferred the Republic and its demands rather than hiding behind futile reasons, which cannot justify not coming to tell the Senegalese how they intend to put to music the populist scores shouted on campaign platforms since 2014 and supposedly planned by Senegalese from all over the world and who alone had the right to have a capital letter to their status as Patriots.
The Senegalese ask with faith in their institutions that the Prime Minister does them the honor of coming and serving impatient citizens, in due time, this fabulous PROJECT which more and more has the taste and smell of bone by Mor Lam.
Serigne Ngundu, please, the Senegalese expected so much from your… POWER…
